Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke handed Cape Town the coveted award, in recognition of how the city handled its finances during the 2021/2022 financial year, at a ceremony in Saldanha on Friday.
“Building sound institutions in government, with transparency and integrity in spending, leads to a government that can really deliver — where things get slowly better over time, where infrastructure can be built, and where the social safety net can be expanded.
Hill-Lewis said “not only is Cape Town making unrivalled investments in infrastructure and service delivery, we are also doing so on the basis of clean governance”.
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